More Than 2,000 Children Die Every Day From Unintentional Injury; At Least Half Could Be Saved
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 - 20:16
in Health & Medicine
More than 2,000 children die every day as a result of an unintentional, or accidental injury, and every year tens of millions more worldwide are taken to hospitals with injuries that often leave them with lifelong disabilities. The World Report on Child Injury Prevention provides the first comprehensive global assessment of childhood unintentional injuries and prescribes measures to prevent them. It concludes that if proven prevention measures were adopted everywhere at least 1,000 children's lives could be saved every day.